Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Additional Particulars of
the Paris Fire.
RYAN CHALLENGES KILRAIN.
Pool of the Five Coast Powder Com
panies Bursted-Presidential
Party Gone.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
PARIS, May 26.-The bodies Of the
ballet dancers who lost their lives by the
burning of the Opera Comique, last
night, are lying in heaps in the ruins o.
the theatre. The firemen assert thai
many bodies are lying in the upper gal
leries. The number of persons killed
greatly exceeds the previous estimate
An excited crowd surrounds the ruins,
which are guarded by military Gordon
BODIES OF BALLET GIRLS.
Twenty bodies, in a terribly mutil
ated condition, have been recovered
from the ruins. The remains are prin-
cipally those of the ballet girls, chor.
listers and machinists.
TWENTY MORE BODIES.
Twenty more bodies were recovered
this afternoon from the ruins of the
Theatre Comique. The seorch still
continues.
GOVERNMENT WILL CLOSE THEATRES.
The remains of three men and two
women were found in a stage box,
where the victims had taken refuge
from the flames. 1t is ascertained that
many bodies are buried in the upper gall
leries, where escape was exceedingly
difficult. The Government proposes to
close several of the Paris theatres, be.
cause of their deficiency in exits. Late
this afternoon, the bodies of eighteen
ladies', all in full dress, were
found lying together at the
bottom of the staircase leading
from the second story.
DID THE MEN SKIP OUT.
The ladies all had escorts to the thea
tre, but no remains of the men were
found near where the women were
burned to death. The walls OF the
theater began falling this evening and
further search for the bodies had to
be abandoned for the day. The
library attached. to the theater was en-.
tirely destroyed with all its contents, in.
cluding many valuable scores. Six thou
sand costumes were burned in the ward
robe.
TWO HUNDRED LOST,
The work of searching for bodies was
resumed tonight and number more
were exhumed. An official statement
seys that fifty bodies have already been
recovered.
Revilleon, in speaking in the Chamber
of Deputies this afternoon, estimated
that at least 200 persons lost their lives
in the fire.
GOVERNMENT RELIEF. teaai
The Chamber of Deputies have voted
a credit of 200. 900 francs for the relief of
the sufferers by the Opera Comique fire.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
PARIS, May 26.-To.day l50 missing
persons have been inquired for by their
relatives, aud are supposed to have per-
ished in the flames. The bottom of the
theatre has been flooded with water to
a depth of five feet. Sixty bodies have
been found floating in this water by the
firemen.
PARIS, May 26.-Among the audience
at the Opera Comique last night were
General Boulanger, General Saussier,
General Thibauldin, M. Goblet, M.
Berthelot. All escaped unhurt. An
artist named Philippe performed prodi-
gies of vslor in saving lives. He mounted
ladder three times and saved three
danseuses after they had been abandoned
by the 6remen. In the Rue Favart, sud-
den gust of wind cleared away the
dense smoke, when woman and two
men were seen standing in an angle of
the uppermost cornice. The woman
tried to jump but the men prevented
her. When all of them were finally
rescued, the woman was raving MAC.
A singer made miraculous escape from
the dressing-room in an angle at the top
of the building. He says the wind kept
the flames off of that part of the build
ing, but a river of molten lead poured
from the roof, the course of which he di-
verted with his beard, to prevent its
weight from carrying down the shaky
floor. The officials are endeavoring to
under.rate the loss of life. The large
number of bodies found has alarmed the
public Tho Theatre Chateau d'Au an
nounces performance for the benefit of
the sufferers on Monday.